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How is powerplans/performance modes handled in laptops running linux compared to windows?
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It's very good - in some cases better than Windows. I have a MSI gaming laptop. The battery lifedin longer on linux compared to Windows.
With custom scripts you can control fan speed. However... I have a intel/nVidia card on KDE with wayland and it is hell. Nothing works as expected, so I can't tell about gaming in itself.
For other tasks, it works really well.
I'm lucky that I don't need long battery life, I'm always plugged in for gaming, so I have set the Nvidia GPU in Dedicated mode. I suspect not having both (optimus or prime) have eliminated a lot of issues, it works well with Wayland and Plasma and games like BG3 and Guildwars2 under Proton+Xwayland.
Actually it's not too bad on the battery when not gaming, despite always running NVidia.
I have to ask... on KDE wayland, how do you set it to dedicated mode ?